May 31, 2011 3:00PM The March S&P/Case Shiller Home Price Indices , released by Standard & Poor's, paint an increasingly clear picture of the "double dip" in U.S. home prices. The indices, which are billed by S&P as the leading measure of U.S. home prices, are constructed to track the price path of typical single-family homes in a number of metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs). The study uses matched price pairs of individual houses to construct a 20-City Composite Index and a 10-City Composite Index which... May 31, 2011 9:05AM The week ahead holds key jobs data that will likely dictate market directionality as the 2nd Quarter comes to a close. The monthly Employment Situation Report will be released on Friday morning; investors expect it to confirm an economic slowdown is indeed in progress. Economists polled by Reuters see just 190k jobs were added to Nonfarm Payrolls in May versus 244k in April and 221k in March. "Higher readings of initial claims for unemployment insurance in recent weeks have led to concerns about...
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